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and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> and finally tonight, what it takes to be a hero. today, the medal of honor was awarded to a soldier who was outnumbered and outgunned, and and the video captured the courage of what he did next. abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the sun had not yet risen when captain will swenson and his men made their way into an afghan village. that's when it happened. >> we start receiving fire. >> reporter: an ambush. pinned down, swenson returned fire for 90 minutes. his men hit. sergeant first class kenneth westbrook, bleeding from the neck, losing consciousness. bullets flying all around him. the enemy now so close, they called out for the americans to surrender. swenson ran to westbrook, lobbing a grenade and carrying him the length of two football fields. a helmet cam captured the moment. that is swenson, his helmet off. risking his life by being out in the open, using an orange tarp to guide
and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> and finally tonight, what it takes to be a hero. today, the medal of honor was awarded to a soldier who was outnumbered and outgunned, and and the video captured the courage of what he did next. abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the sun had not yet risen when captain will swenson and his men made their way...
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some law makers were defiant. >> are you going to keep your salary? >> i'm going to keep my salary. >> i'm going to continue to take my salary. >> i'm working. everybody that gets paid for working. >> reporter: now that the shutdown is history, how many congress members will do what frank loblando dp and give their paychecks back? >> we wanted to ask law makers but on the day the government turned on, congress took off, the hall ways here on capitol hill empty. >> reporter: we picked up the phones. abc news called or e-mailed every office of senators who voted no on re-opening the government. >> is the senator planning on cutting a check to the treasury. >> 33 percent said they would donate theirs to charity. chris collins of new york is giving his to the boy scouts. only 13 members said they were keeping their salaries. a spokesman for jim bridenstine from oklahoma said he worked harder than ever during the shutdown. congressman loblando has this message. >> every member is going to have to go back to their constituents and look them in the eye and b
some law makers were defiant. >> are you going to keep your salary? >> i'm going to keep my salary. >> i'm going to continue to take my salary. >> i'm working. everybody that gets paid for working. >> reporter: now that the shutdown is history, how many congress members will do what frank loblando dp and give their paychecks back? >> we wanted to ask law makers but on the day the government turned on, congress took off, the hall ways here on capitol hill...
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and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> tonight the heat is on for s those boy scout leaders who could face felony charges for a videotape rocketing around the country. men causing trouble inside a state park in utah, destroying a sacred rock formation millions of years old. and then high fiving one another. abc's aditi roy tracked down the men to ask what they have to say for themselves tonight. >> reporter: they evoke mystery and wonder, these spectacular utah rock formations known as goblins. this goblin has balanced here for 20 million years. >> wiggle it, just a little bit. >> reporter: it took glenn taylor fewer than 20 seconds to knock it over. >> whoo! yeah! >> reporter: his son and a pal, all boy scout leaders posted the video on youtube and their destruction of the national wonder triggered a fire storm. the boy scout organization is furious, saying the men violated the scout's leave no trace policy of respecting na
and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> tonight the heat is on for s those boy scout leaders who could face felony charges for a videotape rocketing around the country. men causing trouble inside a state park in utah, destroying a sacred rock formation millions of years old. and then high fiving one another. abc's aditi roy tracked down the men to ask...
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senior law enforcement officials telling us that the transfer was sped up due to a serious health condition. a u.s. official confirming reports that al libi has a severe case of hepatitis c which is a viral infection that attacks the liver. over the years al libi apparently mistakenly assumed the u.s. had stopped looking for him. now, finally, he is facing justice. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> now overseas to an uproar about life-styles of the rich and famous in europe. there is a call for one high ranking official to step down because of his first class flights, his $42 million home. it's hard to believe that man is a catholic priest. tonight pope francis summoned the so-called bling bishop to the vatican. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: in germany, they're calling him the bling bishop, bishop franz-peter tabartz van elst in limburg. renovations to his official residence near frankfurt reportedly cost more than $40 million, including $475,000 for walk-in closets, $20,000 for the bishop's bath tub, plus a heated roof on his private chapel. the german media ridiculed the
senior law enforcement officials telling us that the transfer was sped up due to a serious health condition. a u.s. official confirming reports that al libi has a severe case of hepatitis c which is a viral infection that attacks the liver. over the years al libi apparently mistakenly assumed the u.s. had stopped looking for him. now, finally, he is facing justice. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> now overseas to an uproar about life-styles of the rich and famous in europe....
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of the united states coming to a screeching halt, in an attempt to kill the president's health care law. >> this fight, this debate, will continue until collectively the american people can make d.c. listen. >> reporter: a risky move. 74% of americans disapprove of how republicans handled the shutdown. cruz's own hometown paper, the houston chronicle, which endorsed him only last year as a thoughtful, energetic shooting star, today denounced him as part of the problem. even some of his fellow republicans in congress are furious. >> we look bad and it's because of ted cruz and his supporters in the house who basically led us into the valley of death. >> reporter: but not tea party members, those we spoke to today, said it was all worth it. >> if you had to do it over again, would you take the same approach? should house republicans have taken the same approach here? >> this was the right approach to take. >> but you didn't win? >> it's not about winning. it's about, were we on the right path? were we fighting the right fight? >> so if this fight was about obama care, republicans lost. >>
of the united states coming to a screeching halt, in an attempt to kill the president's health care law. >> this fight, this debate, will continue until collectively the american people can make d.c. listen. >> reporter: a risky move. 74% of americans disapprove of how republicans handled the shutdown. cruz's own hometown paper, the houston chronicle, which endorsed him only last year as a thoughtful, energetic shooting star, today denounced him as part of the problem. even some of...